MATT ZIEMIANSKI
Creve Coeur,Missouri
Summary
Pragmatic professional with solid experience in leadership roles. Adept at implementing strategic business plans, driving growth and improving operations. Skilled in financial management and stakeholder relations. Collaborative and dedicated to building and leading talented and motivated individuals.
Technology and business visionary with executive and hands-on experience in multi-million-dollar enterprises. Proven ability to bring the benefits of technology to solve business issues and security needs while managing costs and risks. Leader of multiple custom application developments and deployments. More than 25 years experience in the insurance, medical, criminal justice and financial industries. Dynamic management career with strong leadership, problem-solving, planning, team building and project management skills. Recruit, develop, motivate and retain diverse staff structuring them in teams that deliver results and savings. Employ expertise to take an idea and architect it into a live solution.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CEO
KARPEL SOLUTIONS
St. Louis, MO
05.2011 - Current
- Researched new technologies to increase performance while lowering total cost or ownership
- Designed and implemented cloud strategy with Microsoft Azure Commercial and Government
- Cultivated forward-thinking, inclusive and performance-driven company culture to lead industry innovations.
- Reviewed individual department performance and worked with leadership to improve processes, procedures, and practices
- Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors and strategic partners
- Initiated strategy to drive company growth and increase market share and profitability
- Total consumption in use over 2 petabytes
- Streamlined IT to be best in class
- Negotiated over 500 contracts
- Created company atmosphere that led to less than 3% turnover
- Created Company DR, backup strategies and enterprise IT Policies
- Created long-term technology roadmap to support anticipated growth
- Lead company growth 10%+ year over year for past 5 years.
- P&L overview with budgeting for each group
CTO/CIO
USF
St. Louis, MO
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Provided executive leadership as head of corporate IT
- Designed internal dashboard for at-a-glance system and project status reportingResponsible for all aspects of strategic technology planning, implementation and support as integral component of the business plan
- Worked closely with vendors and technology partners on integrations, infrastructure and enterprise solutions
- Developed and led large-scale technology initiatives for long-term strategic plans and solutions
- Established positive relationships with industry leaders to gain insight into innovations and trends
- Built IT infrastructure to support key business strategies and evolving processes
- Identified and instituted 1.2MM in savings within first 6 months
- Designed and implemented company IT policies and procedures, including Red Flag and SOC
- Created company’s first Disaster Recovery Plan and IT Roadmap
- Executed full security risk analysis/audit and implemented recommendations
- Responsible for corporate Information Technology and Systems strategy and vision
- Reported to CEO
- Nine direct reports and 37 indirect reports with 13.5MM yearly budget.
Director of Operations
RESULTS TECHNOLOGY
Lenexa, KS & Chesterfield, MO
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Managed services provided for multiple verticals including medical, finance, insurance and industrial
- Mitigated business risks by working closely with staff members and assessing performance.
- Provided leadership and spearheaded creation of full managed services for clients in the financial and medical industry
- Designed infrastructure and VoIP networks
- Built managed services division to support clients infrastructure and backup systems with 24/7 monitoring and support
- Managed Cisco and Microsoft Engineers (hardware / software) in multiple locations
- Provided expertise to assist companies in developing their Business Continuity
- Developed Project plans for implementations across the Country, which included timelines, statements of work, bill of materials, and detailed design documents
- Coordinated all vendor relationships resulting in higher revenue generation
- Initiated disaster recovery and backup protocols
- Developed corporate policies encompassing Data Security for multiple clients
- Negotiated and managed installation of real-time collaboration systems enabling users to hold voice/video conference calls while viewing/sharing documents
CTO / Vice President of IT/IS
NSITE SOLUTIONS, INC, DES MOINES
01.2001 - 01.2007
- Designed and created best of class on-line claims management system to insurance companies throughout the country
- Premiere service provider of e-business technology solutions and support services for insurance industry
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisionsManaged team of developers in building state of the art Internet application utilizing Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server Enterprise
- Solved help desk department bottlenecks resulting in 76% productivity increase
- Succeeding in reducing time to resolution by 95%
- Designed 24x7 online portal in Visual Studio .NET enabling real-time viewing of files (images, video and documents) through web interfaces with storage potential of 70 terabytes
- Managed multiple development projects using Microsoft suite of tools and servers, all within budget and on-time
- Created and managed QA, Configuration Management and Help Desk departments
- Spearheaded re-organization of Call Center Support department
- Converted enterprise to IP Telephony
- Conceived best of class data center
- Resulted in providing 99.9% uptime (under 50 minutes unplanned downtime per year)
- Reported to CEO
- Had 4 direct and 14 indirect reports with 5MM yearly budget.
Vice President of IT
DAIS, INC, LENEXA, Dais
01.1998 - 01.2001
- Private company, provided software solutions for insurance industry with focus on automotive market
- Established performance goals for department and outlined processes for achievement.
- Used market insights to capitalize on key business opportunities for new advantageous partnerships.
- Provided IT leadership for on-line system design for insurance industry
- Initiated strategy for development of disaster recovery programs
- Designed and implemented IP telephony infrastructure
- Planned and led all aspects of new office and move of entire company and data center to new location with no downtime
- Conceived security algorithm for shrink-wrapped product
- Enabled client to license product with recurring monthly revenue with initial install base of 1000 units at $100+ per unit per month
- Led QA team in testing e-commerce application built with Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server.
IT Architect Team & Software Engineer
JACK HENRY & ASSOC, PARK
03.1996 - 01.1998
- Providing software and hardware solutions for over 1,500 banks
- Created first on-line suite of products for U.S. Banks including on-line bill pay system
- Led back-end team on developing ISAPI hooks
- Developed program to roll out to 39 banks in 1998 with WAN connectivity through use of Frame Networks.
IT Director
COMPUSPEAK, INC
01.1992 - 01.1996
- Premier software and engineering company focused within medical, industrial and insurance verticals
- Documented and analyzed processes and procedures and adhered to regulatory guidance.
- Creating software and hardware solutions using hand-free user interaction via text-to-speech and voice recognition
- Provided IT direction to increase information sharing enabling increased speed to market for products to medical and insurance verticals
- Responsible for multiple departments and 500K budget
- Increased productivity and communications by 100% with implementation of company’s first email and centralized network
- Developed system utilizing text-to-speech and voice recognition for medical dictation systems for physicians
- Designed sub-system for frequency scanning hardware to scan frequencies within hospitals to determine wireless range that would not interfere with medical devices
- Designed and managed corporate infrastructure for both voice and data
Education
Management Training -
Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc.
Shawnee Mission, KS06.1997
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Rockhurst University
Kansas City, MO12.1995
Skills
- Technology Discovery
- Vendor Relationships
- Financial Management
- Process Improvement
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Strategic Partnership
- Operations Management
- Analytical and Critical Thinker
Affiliations
- Board President for A.L.I.V.E. (Alternate Living in Violent Environments)
- Vistage member since 2016
Certification
- Emergency First Responder Instructor
- Open Water and Advanced Open Water Scuba Instructor
- Rescue Diver
Timeline
CEO
KARPEL SOLUTIONS
05.2011 - Current
CTO/CIO
USF
01.2009 - 01.2011
Director of Operations
RESULTS TECHNOLOGY
01.2007 - 01.2009
CTO / Vice President of IT/IS
NSITE SOLUTIONS, INC, DES MOINES
01.2001 - 01.2007
Vice President of IT
DAIS, INC, LENEXA, Dais
01.1998 - 01.2001
IT Architect Team & Software Engineer
JACK HENRY & ASSOC, PARK
03.1996 - 01.1998
IT Director
COMPUSPEAK, INC
01.1992 - 01.1996
Management Training -
Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc.
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Rockhurst University